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In early trading on Tuesday, shares of McDonald's (MCD) topped the list of the day's best performing Dow Jones Industrial Average components, trading up 2.1%. Year to date, McDonald's registers a 0.2% gain.

And the worst performing Dow component thus far on the day is DuPont (DD), trading down 1.4%. DuPont is showing a gain of 2.2% looking at the year to date performance.

Two other components making moves today are Verizon Communications (VZ), trading down 1.1%, and Cisco Systems (CSCO), trading up 0.7% on the day.